When to the sessions of sweet silent thought... ‧̍̊·̊‧̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥‧̥·̊‧̍̊ ♡ °̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥ ·͙*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙·̩̩̥͙*̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙ °̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥ ♡ ‧̍̊·̊‧̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥‧̥·̊‧̍̊ __________________________________________ Sonnet VI Then let not winter's ragged hand deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; That's for thyself to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee: Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart, Leaving thee living in posterity? Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. .ೃ࿐ BASICS. FULL NAME: michetta de gocciolo. NICKNAME: brigotto, piccolina, miche, chetta, che-che. AGE: 24. BIRTH DATE: 03/288. ETHNICITY: dressolini. RACE: feka asha. (ailor + nefer) BIRTH PLACE: città d’uccelli. GENDER: female. OCCUPATION: lion pelt order. .ೃ࿐ FAMILY. PARENTS: civraxiu gocciolo, paolina d'Tocci 'sposina'. SIBLINGS: n/a. PET(S): n/a. Spoiler: expansion. DESTINATION. ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ- 01. Why is it your character traveled to the Crown city? the young feka asha traveled urgently to regalia on behalf of the heating situation of talea's ressurection and diplomatic circumstances, avidly worried about her mentor. she even insisted in not having her after party to assure eponia's health came first. 02. What emotion should others feel towards your character? I want michetta to be perceived as just, someone to be friends with, not loved nor hated, if it goes that way it goes that way but she's not a romantically inclined oc, I made mante with that purpose in mind, not her. she's meant to be my fun oc with some aptitude of seriousness to her character, I want her to be perceived as respectful and kind, but not someone to bootkiss. people dont have to like her, its not my decision to make that, but seeing as shes my comfort character I just want to use her for. what she was intended to be made for: my dream of being a knight, making a noble oc, a scholar, all balled into one with a drastic, huge mixed cultural background that still seems realistic enough to struggle with some things I do. feeling as if one has to be mature all the time, being/learning to be mature at a young age/perceived as someone who was way more mature than the last. someone who's really serious, responsible, and doesn't take shit from other people. but, also someone who is just scared. scared to let themselves be known, scared or worried about public representation. passionate about things privately, standing for the people publicly. 03. Your character has twenty-four hours to live. What do they do with this time? michetta, with her surplus of money, would wake up normally not understanding at first she had these 24 hours to live, she would get an instinctive feeling that something was to happen. · 4 A.M. wake up time, she gets up from her loft as she likes to call it, and prepares a facial wash, mousse + hair care routine, as well as taking the time to braid her tail hair and curl her longer locks to afford wearing her armor with style. brush teefers, etc. This process takes almost an hour and a half to do because she has snarly hair, etc. · 5:30 A.M. she goes out into the personal garden she has, well cared for by a hired gardening service (PC, will hire eventually) and begins to play her wooden frog instrument as well as try to continue learning the flute. the frogs in her garden are always awake at this time in spring, so they're a lovely ambiance. this takes like until 9 a.m. simply because she just enjoys being in the garden, im sure she grabs hardened bread biscuits to feast on with cheese spread too or smth dressolini-make. · 9-11 am is letter reading and writing time, she's still in the garden at this hour but with more intent. to write back to her mother and father in the distant village she called home until she was 5, give thanks and then train to write poetry. · 12 pm - 4 pm investigate town and finally have this massive creeping feeling she only has a few more hours to live. this is where she would go and begin using her lion pelt order code and allow people charity through drinks, homage, offer her place a shelter and give bread to those who were hungry/in poverty. she'd show up to the old town church, any that she could not to preach but to offer prayer and therefore ask the reverends and church leaders if she could give portion of funds to them with walking on eggshells respect not to gift money to those who would spit on her, instead gift produce etc. · 5-7 pm return home after visiting her favorite places, communicating with her lion pelt mentor an "im going to go away for awhile", etc. and gifting special items to her mentor and a few close friends. · 8-9 return to a church she beloves and make oaths and prayers, receive on her last meal a blessing from the reverend, write lasting letters back to her parents and deliver them personally herself, as well as wrapping her remaining possessions and beorl axe kindly into a glass container for them to be picked up. · 10 - 12 rest peacefully in her bed and instead of going out like a glorified hero, pass away in her sleep after gowning up and undoing her hair and makeup. PROFICIENCIES. ༄ .ೃ CORE: 50 HOBBY: 10 WEAPON: steel beorl axe lined with ivory from her father. there are symbols of the herons etched into it's bare side and it sweeps with some gold lining. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ NATURE .˚ genetic palebloodism - 3 core) .˚ linguistics leutz vixe - 3 core) .˚ geographic natural science - 3 core) .˚ financial school - 3 core) .˚ archaeology school - 3 core) .˚ command school - 3 core) DOMINANT .˚ bardiche combat - 10 core) .˚ body care training - 5 core) .˚ perception training - 5 core) ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ HOBBY .˚ pathfinding art - 10 hobby) .˚ baking - 10 core ) + (Racial Boost = 15) .˚ vocal art - 1 core) .˚ instrument art - 1 core) ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶┊michetta gocciolo, the first child of civraxiu gocciolo and paolina d'tocci, destined to become a greater knight within the ranks of the lion pelt order under siring watch of eponia sauvelle and the entire world's view. she travels to the crown capital on behalf of the sudden uprising war on the brink of her after-graduate party to collaborate with her old mentor and bring about a greater legacy to the knights in shining armor and ivory beorl. Spoiler: abilities. ABILITIES. ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ- 01. palebloodism being a paleblood means that a character's hair and skin lack pigment or melanin, always appearing very pale. it also causes their eyes to appear reddish-pink (not crimson red like vampires). paleblood characters also have photosensitivity- bright or flashing lights hurt their eyes. however, all paleblood characters can see the soul-rivers of aloria, similar to the isldar. palebloods have a strong position in any old gods culture, being considered touched by the gods. 02. racials - asha primality - asha claws - asha agility - living metal source - living metal body - living metal stances 03. point-buy - finance school - command school - natural sciences school - archaeology school 04. perception - rogue gift 1 - rogue gift 2 - rogue gift 3 - rogue gift 4 05. bodycare - skin purge 1 Spoiler: expansion. INVENTORY. ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ- 01. several insect brooches a small butterfly brooch crafted by sewn strings and felt, weaved together in perfect unison to depict the grand papillon of ithania; a tiny ladybug brooch, cute and red; a twinning moth brooch; a golden bee brooch.02. pamphlet for the school of mariposa+ an advertisement and pamphlet for various schools, localized and studied to further knowledge on different types of respect to gift out.03. unionist bible a journal that doubles as a bible, as well as adopting some citations for dragon worship studies, as well as sayings defined as the verses of faith in the back.04. a lady's guide to social graces - genevieve howlester a heavily published nonfiction prose that helps guide the ladies of noble courts (and men, gender ambiguous/nonbinary) on how to settle social graces: from making tables to preparing the food layouts, activities and gifts.05. several playwrights, poems by writers and theatric enthusiasts. the candle mouse - alke sÿtzen a swan's lament - blaise de sainte-pierre (illegal by jacobinism) the tale of sir eamon and the serpent - david soucy 06. wooden percussion frog the same wooden frog sits on her hip, attached via a small chainlink. it has a stained wooden beam in between its teeth which is used to rub against the large wooden spines on its back in a singular motion to imitate frog noises. LANGUAGES. ༄ .ೃ .˚dressalo. .˚leutz-vixe. (3) .˚common. Spoiler: culture. 01. Leutz-Vixe 5/10 (Learned Culture) accent language schwätztnäischt, or lack of small talk erdrénktte & moss jongfras, mixed with the tales of the creature bullimelusse gemëschtent szen art “mixed scene” encouraged to continue her dressalo music 02. Dressolini (Homeland Culture) 5/10 dominant culture mother’s side caccia par la volontà instrumental passion writing passion 03. Zvorun (Distant Culture) 3/5 gifted khlakuk with family symbols drawn upon it. learned and devoted to speaking zvorun for a short period of time (3 weeks). knows only some phrases. "Smutek Jelen" "Sniezny Diabel" pierogis ┊michetta is described as a very culturally mixed girl, capable of picking up writing techniques from other cultures or even playing classical musical compositions from other languages on her khlakuk, as well as being instrumentally diverse but still failing to find a wide variety that she sticks to. she also enjoys culinary items, such as honeybread or honeyball mushrooms. ┊dressalo, known to her as "parole dolci", was her mother-language built up by civraxiu and paolina as a first word and native heritage. she often spent her time parroting phrases and with enough build, spent her days speaking in it even in times of stress as a comfort. leutz-vixe was learned when the young feka traveled to oisteremark, ivenna, as a standard protocol while speaking such a language. common was taught to her as a border between her homeland language and the foreign tongue she heard of, which was also how the gocciolo were capable of speaking to new regalian travelers and michetta's mentor, eponia. APPEARANCE. ༄ .ೃ BODY SHAPE: muscular BODY FAT: low body fat SPECIAL TRAITS: feka asha PHY. STAT: 17.5 AILMENTS: undiagnosed mental strain (genetic depression) + palebloodism INTELLIGENCES: mathematics, linguistics, writing, musically inclined ZODIAC: march equivalent, aries ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ VISUAL. .˚eye color - paleblood pink. .˚hair color - (dyed) dark brown. .˚hair style - long, hybrid curly + straight hair, tight curls and mermaid braids. .˚skin color - wintery pale white .˚clothing - italian folk dance dresses + "vestidos victorianos". .˚height - 5'4" ┊the daffodil splashes and emerald green foreground, mixed like the paste of an artists oils with a spread of turpentine, glazed to see one's reflection but not any dreams; chocolate mousse with a fine smell of cocoa powder and cinnamon, dressed and adorned in ribbons of green; spiraling like the sweet cinnamon roll swirls with the cozy touch of freshly baked bread; like the white fur of a mountain goat, strung with tufts and maned like a lion, prowling from the icy regions of the dressolini folklores; a closet as large as wonderland, green becomes the trees while the white nightgowns on the floor become the snow, guiding you is a man of half-goat and half-kindness, one-hundred percent dutiful; small like a mouse, quick like a tiger, too ashamed of yourself to see your beauty. Spoiler: expansion. VISUAL. ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ- FACIAL. .˚eye. her eyes are an albino pink, suited with her paleblood status. often, she wears dark shades to protect herself from it. when revealed, they are a skin-pink color. .˚nose. pointy and small; one would call it button sized, daint and tiny. she has a softened fur pattern spanning across it in flecks and twizzles at the bridge, hardly noticeable. .˚skin color. her skin color is like that of a pale beach, afraid of the sun and tanning all together. in oisteremark, the hot days would often tempt her inside as she would get too hot during practice (for a full hour and more) enough to almost pass out. .˚lips. small and rotund, one would describe them to be tulip petals aligned over top and bottom. she has a slight droop lip, constantly making both her face look sad and her eyes even more with those heavy bags. .˚teeth sharp asha canines lie in her jaws, enough to bite down and draw blood from the skin, and combined into an attack with her claws that shred leather, can result in bloodbath. .˚ears. ears distinctly always drooped downwards, half-crescent and reminiscent of the silken windhounds half-perked or shifted ears when listening to something. nobody knows if this is a constant decision or a birth defect, but it adheres and damages some of her potential hearing or at the very least makes her vary in attention span. when she turns her head these ears flop, but she is capable of perking them up to have a better radial hearing. .˚hair. brown curly waves of locks that spindle down with an assortment of neatly tied braids and green bows at the back, particularly a large one that droops down as a comfort method. sometimes if she is working she will spin it up into a ponytail, and due to it's length she constantly has to weave it into tight braids underneath her helmet to assure she doesn't get heatstroke. .˚racial. white fur patches align her neck like a lion's mane, puffed outwards and neatly trimmed enough to look straight out of a hedge line, with a brownie-blondish (light brown) coloration and sometimes with even squigglier curls. to fit her helmet on she specifically has to take the time to weave or gel these pieces of her mane back, but is quite content come winter because it keeps most of her warm. .˚expression. usually the girl has a downwards expression, lips curled into a frown with her eyes loose and bagged from tired nights, and with her pale features she only looks more like a ghost from afar, but because of her upkeep in bows, she chooses to be more delicate on herself and apply less makeup, instead taking care of a cleaning face routine for hours before she rests. .˚admirations. michetta has an array of freckles across her nose and peppered on her left cheek, as if you took a paintbrush and flecked your fingers on it multiple times on her blank canvas. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ FIGURE. .˚height. some would call the knight average size, and yet all around her (fellow pelters) she is one of the few shorter ones. michetta always felt ashamed because of her height and some blemishes on her body, and it's one of the very things she chooses to avoid being picked on about. 5'4". .˚body shape. michetta is canonically the "pencil" body shape iirc, but in character she is defined as the "muscular" body type. this isnt to say she cant be feminine, yet she has strong muscular details on her arms and thighs, which she mostly covers with garbs and dressolini folk dance dresses with a familiar fear to eponia's: her bodily self esteem is still bad, if not a little worser than sauvelle's, and she has to take the time to delicately pick out her outfits to make sure she is both seen as slim and defined. if one were to touch her muscles, they'd feel like hardened memory foam beds. .˚bone size. for those of capradeim: her bone size is roughly a radius of estimated 1 inch with a 1/2 difference. they're ebony white, almost like ivory, and can be used best in thrones. .˚metabolism rate. because of michetta's fast metabolism rate as an active nefer-asha bloodline, she constantly eats more than people believe she should even in a ladylike manner, and then works to burn off those excess calories with intense sessions of ithanian workout routines as well as practicing her awful dance skills and other necessities; she is constantly on her feet, burning off so many calories that she must eat her weight amount perhaps twice. .˚blemishes. michetta has two blemishes: one large miscoloration on her inner thigh, and one scatter of freckles mixed with a melanin difference on her left arm. the patches of fur she disregards from being blemishes, but sometimes had shaved them off of herself when she was very young out of crying shame because she was in such belief that they made her look ugly. her skin is super pale from a lack of melanin, and she is paleblooded, meaning that she has photosensitivity, yet she also has auditory issues slightly. .˚nails. sharp black onyx claws that extend from her hand. when pressure is applied to her hands, she constantly has them out in a defunct way, but they become less painful to hold and more brittle, as if attached like a marsupial's tail, unable to be wielded for harmful intentions. she only utilizes these claws when a target has come into close contact with her own body, and her armored gloves match to allow her to sheave them out at a person's face as well as retract them quickly back in like pin-needles. .˚body hair/racial lower. the main soft velvet fur of the feka lies mostly on the elbows, amongst the neck as a mane, spiraling down the back against the spine, underneath the nape and across the shoulder blades. there used to be patches of it on her back knees, but she constantly tries to clip and shave those off whenever she can. sometimes in winter she will let these excess patches grow back to prepare for the snowy temperatures. attached to the feka is a long beautiful tail inspired by silken windhounds with patches of white mainly on the bottom coating. she often braids the long curly strands, and frequently takes care of it as if it was her own hair, grooming products into it and conditioning it as well as finishing off with a bow. in armor, this tail becomes plated and with it's 50% punch, is capable of knocking someone off of their feet with a good directed sweep. (roll 10) ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ FASHION. .˚style. the style "vestidos victorianos" refers to the spanish translation "victorian clothes", and the primary example of these are lolita dresses on the first page. she often wears traditional dressolini clothing, folk dance outfits, green ribbons, and light-hearted, soft gowns when it comes time to courts or special events. sometimes she will wear a bonnet or anything considered hotier when it is in season. .˚aesthetic. forestcore, frogs, springtime, summer dresses, lilypads, violins, hurdy-gurdys, musical instruments, green, white, yellow, pink, red, victorian maiden, cottagecore maiden, baker's daughter, entrepreneur, chivalrous dancer. .˚closet. this is a temporary imgur album until i have her main pinterest board finished. <3 [link] ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ VOICE. .˚tone. often the feka speaks in gentle tones, but sometimes more than others she comes off as removed and distant, almost as if a part of her isnt there, or she'll sometimes be too elated and one singular thing could strike her day down to avert her back to this plastic slate. when she yells (almost never re: vocality) she has a booming equipped tone akin to a fledgling general that is still learning the hooks, trying to be in a greater position than something she isnt equipped for. .˚accent. migrating from oisteremark, ivenna on a quick notice, she wasnt able to take the time to freshly adapt a new regalian accent and instead speaks in heavy leutz, although there is a charm with how soft-spoken she is to it. she often speaks in a slurring, inspiring light, as if careful not to offend anyone but still capable of having an independence streak. .˚vocality. michetta almost never yells, she speaks in a low, quiet mouse-like tone and sometimes to others far, is harder to hear. often she will have to repeat her mumbles, as it was a constant habit eponia failed to break out of her from her young shyness, and still to this day may have to remind her of independency and raising her voice in times of feat. PERSONALITY. ༄ .ೃ CORE TRAITS: humble, generous, daft, ignorant, bubbled, sensitive, inspirational, compassionate, patient, belligerent, benevolent, endearing, depressing, poetic, gullible, loyal MYERS-BRIGGS: INFJ-A / INFJ-T ALIGNMENT/MORALITY: lawful good RELIGION: ex-unionist to dragon worship (violet creation throne) ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ 01. How would your character express Happiness and Contentedness? michetta is often not a fan of expressing her emotions: she is shy, content and well off from being passionate publicly. in the times she has even been happy, like her parents used to describe, she would be: "come una farfalla a giugno" (like a butterfly in June). her hands would twitch, fingers wavering as she attempted to pluck the strings of her mother's khlakuk and by far try to play the winding handle at the base. 02. How would your character respond to experiencing Fear? shaky palms; sweaty knees and arms, cold skin to the touch; static and quiet, expressive when provoked, the dressolini girl expresses a great amount of fear or dissonance through horses, growing aching chills in the dark and tail tucked or wrapped amongst her leg as a second persona. 03. How would your character respond to experiencing Stress? unlike other knights, michetta is easily gullible underneath "copious" amounts of stress and is a byproduct of a natural emotional disaster: she strives to be benevolent for the public of the Crown, and yet she still understands the greater dangers on the horizon. arriving at the time of a war also impacted her schedule, relationships and personality, but being a bystander to the Crisis and the Occupation, she is still easily manipulated into fear and can be a dangerous entity when consumed by it. 04. How does your character view Law and Authorities? michetta respects the law and authorities, looking to the supreme reverend and herons as figures of good deeds, being worshipped for the worshipping of the emperor themselves. she is a cleric woman when it comes to herself, but in bound plate armor she is the dutiful, loyal servicer to her order and beyond those that require alms. the people are her authorities, and she tries her best to service them in return for their own good nature and promises. 05. How does your character feel about Races other than their own? the races of the altalar and the wheel of time are expansive: they all have their places in that circle, as she was taught the sparing histories of her mentor and vaguity of others such as the sihndar and yanar, people of the soils that wielded a far-off sort of "magic" that she felt uncomfortable with from such a low context. because of it's unfamiliarity, she has also found cielothar to be folks of "magic" that she has yet to get used to. (re: arcane & magical; 07.) there is a complete disapproval of afflictions: in conclusivity, she feels bad for them. she doesn’t understand their way of life, but knows from two coin talks with others of Regalia that is a force that makes you like it instead of truly love it: michetta doesn’t like things that force others, she isn’t fond of mind control nor is fond of blood drinking, soul scrying, and the likes of aberrancy that are outwardly chaotic. 06. How does your character feel about Religion for themselves, and other faiths? as a once devout unionist, she takes up the passion of her order and combines it into her religious faith itself: taking the vultdragon sects teaching principals at a young age, she was inspired by their psalms and readings (literature) about their doctrine, questioning and reason before what was seen ahead of herself. while not anti-regalian or anti-crown with influence of iconoclasm, she used to take passion in seeing the herons living and dead as people to follow and worship in order to directly worship the emperor herself. one theory the feka has made is the "heronic theory", where she believed from a young age that the herons were once large angelic birds of prey that in ideology, fed on the sinning frogs of the pond "avalon", or "the world". frogs that were boisterous or louder than the others during the day, causing havock and disrupting (perhaps even eating other frogs) were sought to be a connection to the many abberants of the crown capital and of the world. some on an ooc level might think that michetta believes the earth to be flat. by now she has shifted to dragon worship from vultarin, feeling as if the church setting wasn’t possible for her anymore and that confessions made her feel disheartened with herself. it took her leaving home to understand that while the religion was nice, the incidents with it drove her away from it and made certain that it wasn’t what she felt she needed. now as a fresh dragon worshipper, she is looking forward to learning more and has started producing her own healthy theories on which throne she will forever stick with. (ooc: violet creation throne) 07. How does your character feel about the Arcane and Magical in the world? weary, but approachable; michetta has seen magic used before and the arcane forces being put to a deadly work apparatus, therefore she is torn on the subject almost as if it's a rotten, instinctive feeling to immediately impede on using magic or even being near individuals with it. her order intensifies this anti-magic regime as it had been banned within, and further pushed upon with her devotion to unionist sects, but slowly she is getting closer to accepting certain formations of magic: home enchants, primal aligned magicks, and elven magicks, but this can easily be removed from her perspective to make her fear it again. 08. How does your character feel towards their family? michetta is a very homely, familiar person. she often writes letters weekly back to her parents in the village she used to call home, and with her fathers recovering lungs she is often one step away from retreating back home to care for him in his dying days so be it. she doesn't know her extensive family too well, only by name and by some close relations. her most recent and frequent relationship finding would have to be a distant grandmother that was one of the matriarchs for the main "household". 09. What is your character the most proud of about themselves? so far, michetta is proud of achieving her goal in becoming apart of the order, and yet does not see any other destinies or passions: only to live out and earn prestige to continue making her family proud, as well as spend her days devout to the faith she chooses and passions that she once set up herself a long time ago. 10. What motivates your character to move forward and better their life? the feka believes even at the age of 24 that she has reached the epitome of her life, and doesn't expect much else out of it, continuing her "passion" of daily routines: this isnt to say she despises or hates the fact she does the same thing every day, she enjoys being apart of the order and knows by her knightly code that what she does will matter in the long run, especially achieving a rich circumstance and forwarding to nobility in the future. (ooc note: attempt to apply as a house when suitable.) 11. What is your character's biggest insecurity? michetta's biggest insecurity is the fact of letting out her emotions. one would proclaim her to be a very "strong" individual, capable of keeping in a multitude of factors and continuing to be the beneficiary of others for both her code, and herself. she tends to become the pocket therapist of everyday lifestyles, and tries her best to bring about advice all the while not providing any for herself. 12. What is your character's biggest fear? equinophobia, the fear of horses, is dictated by a natural instinct of the fear of being trampled on. when michetta was smaller, it was trivia that her father had to search for her in the deep woods on horseback, and the sound of the rattling hooves on branches was enough to alarm and make her cry, even if he had approached on said steed as cautiously as he could. civraxiu vaguely recalls, "oh come piangeva come un lupo lamentoso." (oh how she cried like a wailing wolf) another distant fear is the fear of the unknown and the dark, it was never something instinctual and more like impactful, wherein she would be too afraid to go venturing into a darkened room without candlelit lest she find herself panicked. Spoiler: expansion. PERSONALITY. ೄྀ࿐ ˊˎ- QUIRKS. when nervous, she will often begin to sniffle or even 'tch'. in times of extreme contentedness, she will purr or otherwise create a low rumbling sound when she intrigued or focused on something, and her pupils will sharpen to focus on it more. while her tail is often always droopy, michetta's inner personality is usually given away like it is a secondary person. in times of great stress it has the capacity to drag across the floor (this also applies to depressional moods, "blue moods") and she is incapable of lying to people, even striving not to for it brings her great shame. when she is excited she will bite her upper lips inner skin or even tap her teeth together, and her ears will become raised either from serotonin or attenuative awareness. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ SKILLS. basket weaving is one of the feka's many hobbies that she is still learning, and she often wants to try and make them as housewarming gifts. a primary habit of hers when she first goes to an estate or a newly found business is to gift them a basket of michetta bread wrapped finely in cloth with dressolini sweets like candied oranges. she is currently developing her skills as a dancer, as well as trying to teach herself better music composition. her mother and father always danced in the house, taking turns dancing with her and proposing respectfully the cliché "may i have this dance?" to her to appease her fairytales. sometimes she would act as a princess of regalia and order civraxiu to dance with her, paolina as well. meanwhile not an expert musician, michetta is continuing to learn musical composition and humming to herself the notes. she is also trying to avidly become better at conversations, and uses music as a gateway to speaking about herself. although not the best commandant, michetta strives to begin learning diplomacy and general tactics. she often picked up on how to weave through the woods with civraxiu, make-believing of enemy forces even when he asked her nicely to stop at times due to his vivid war-theories kicking in, although he forgave her for he knew it was just childs play. civraxiu's worse fear is that she would die in war, and has even pleaded to her through letter not to go if the opportunity arises. michetta has gone to several schools: narla's college for commerce, the imperial regalian archaeology academy, imperial regalian marshal academy, and the lion pelt castle. she is a certified doctor in the science of meterology, trained in the linguistics of leutz-vixe, has theories about the world, trained in finance and offers financial aid to others, certified general of three years, and the teachings from the lion pelt order. __________________________________________ ┊ Beginning┊ from birth that gent wast running, yond young cretin of benevolence dock'd by tail and claw bef're escapism, then with beorl in handeth that gent commenc'd a protective stunt, to calleth upon the battlefield in defense f'r holy Ithania and rescu'd by hands of Url, giveth qualm to the nameth “Civraxiu” of whiten'd cellar bread, hath lost and journeying with oth'rs to a sacr'd landeth wh're his jointress and daught'r frolick, total and free. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶༉‧₊˚. chapter 01: birth-toddler. Spoiler: mother. born to a divorcing couple, then raised in città d’uccelli (re: city.) to a husband with a hidden sapphic lover who later had her: paolina d’Tocci “sposina'' was a single small baby raised to become an alluring woman of both servitude and deference. as a young girl she was raised to be both mysterious, veiled and respected, learning the ways of the rapier and attending etiquette school by her mother, who kept a hidden sapphic lover at bay. at the age of thirty-two, the woman met civraxiu of the rising gocciolo family who had pledged a single man until he found the perfect one, at a charity event. Later, again at a masquerade party for one of the many holidays of the village, paolina took a disguise and danced with masked civraxiu on accepting terms, chattering to the balcony and ending their fairytale night with parting lovesong. Not much is known about the secretive Paolina’s life, as she had stayed quiet hush-hush compared to her able lover civraxiu. It is known that after civraxiu married, he parted from the gocciolo household to start his own lineage and raise his wife dutifully in the peaceful plains of the lower archipelago, beginning to raise an aviary for lettering and rabbit hatchery for meat, entertainment, and company. on the side, they produced fine breads that were homage gifts for others afar.࿐ ˊˎ- Spoiler: city. a small village of a residential count of only 534, and is barely known, but to some who have traveled to this “luxurious, quaint town” that holds a mystery about itself, they would have discovered the village’s emphasis on chivalry manners, influenced by the dressolini, their popular folk dances and aviaries, as well as being green-thumbed folk. gardens similar to Italian chateau’s can be seen for those of higher prestige--even some middle-class holding them up with their own skills. bread, predatory birds with songbirds, and musicians with dancers are the exports of the culture, but they barely can be seen in larger groups. it is located near the mountainous region of ascillia and vultaro, squished in the highest peaks and watching the orc strongholds grow higher to their nesting grounds. the demographics mostly were daedroque, asha, and qadir. in the first years of their arrival, they chased out the lesser altalar that had fled to there previously, on the base that they were slavers and the ideology or reason only enhanced from the altalar-regalian war a few years later.࿐ ˊˎ- a dance so endearing that gifted a child; brought from the heavens by the beak of a heron, coiled in the hands of mother, father kin. weep and a cry her patience low, fists beating the open air and legs kicking in that rustic estate from the comforting woolen cloth that bundled her body; this here a baby girl united from the passion of a single ashan man and his wedlock fiancee. in the spring of 291, equivalence of march, the girl was born in a subtle cottage with dignity and a rich family history to learn about. michetta, the name meaning “little crumb”, was baked to be a chivalrous, studious and taking-after-her-father type woman. at the age of three she ran into the woods and by recollection was spending time listening to the frogs at the riverbank, all the while both of her parents had to go on horseback to find her. born with palebloodism, she was a special child: too much sun caused her to cry, too little sun caused her to feel scared, she would get heatstroke easily, her hearing was never quite perfect and her eyesight just a little bit worse than others. it wasn't until michetta's second birthday that she was fitted with shades to protect herself from the sun, and has grown up with them ever since. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ ༉‧₊˚. chapter 02: schooling-early teen. when she was young she studied herpetology passionately, as well as many other subjects. her parents couldn't get her to ride or instruct a horse from a born fear, every time when she was little she would cry drastically about being near one. along these skills, michetta was also beginning to be taught how to dance, becoming a parlor/friend entertainment as a “look at what i can do” to close individuals. the home never promoted magic-use, and even barred individuals from their doorstep if a lick of a mention was heard, in fear that their young daughter would become influenced by these unknowing powers. (and in general because asha dislike/scorn magic as it reminds them of the horrors). it wasn't until michetta was five years old that she would frequently mention seeing the soul-rivers, talking about how she saw faces or individuals traveling between the house and outside. one of the times that scared civraxiu deeply was when they attended the grave for a lost relative, and she stated she saw large ribbons of silky white essence, describing it as, "come il vestito della madre." this young feka had a peculiar hobby of chasing after wild ferrets and weasels in the rye fields, often beheading them if she could with a lumber axe. if she couldn't, and had already hurt said creatures, she would mend them back to health to try and take their pelts, brushing them to keep the fur pristine. she would also disrupt rabbit dens and find babies during spring seasons, often trying to keep them in her pocket and with a lack of understanding, let them freeze to death, and again she would go on to try and save frozen frogs from the snowbanks. her father cut past these habits rather quickly being an agricultural man himself, but he understood that his daughter was unleashing some tribal habits of things he had been misconstrued told of his culture, and therefore she tried to return them to the nests when she had found new ones, which the mothers would reject. civraxiu parroted the vultarian paolina. together they spoke unionist within the home, while civraxiu taught michetta what he had learned with his own twists, and pushed her to worship the imperial dragon. these series of tutoring included how to balance books, proper ladylike stance, some instrumental practice, dancing, mathematics, often referred to as “piccolina” (a very tiny girl). at the age of five she learned of the great journey from her father civraxiu, yet he only knew of it as a fable tale from his distant culture and being born into slavery. this is then where the feka child learned of her claws, and how he always called them alluring and beautiful with her long lush tail. civraxiu later learned of living metal, but was harshly critical of it from his warped views and couldn't understand why suddenly he could bend such a thing. he kept it in secret from michetta in fear that it was magic, ashamed and uncertain. paolina believed for him to be sick, but over time showing it's usefulness she solemnly accepted it in private. there was interest in several schools when she was little, the first being the imperial regalian archaeology academy. attempts were made to begin working her into the environment through small sessions of digging, where they would have walks through the forest, finding trinkets and metal detecting. truth be told that the dying secret of civraxiu’s leave from the matriarchy + patriarchy structure of the ashan household "gocciolo" was because of the societal stigmas carried on through the asha community. when it came known that civraxiu was soul-mated to an ailor woman, many of his brethren and sisters tried to influence him to return and dote that a woman of that lineage was not suitable. they still let the man’s wings fly, yet consistently tried to coax/lather the pristinity of their head patriarch back into the nest to at least influence this solidarity of soul-mates. even further, after civraxiu had a feka asha with the maiden, the goccicolo house turned their noses upwards and ignored the child with deep rooted passion, therefore isolating the trio of both lovers and gosling to the cottage-fields. the nefer husband of foreign lover was never really tied into his natural culture and race, which would later down the line prove to be a challenge for the feka child. it didnt impact the lovers and their swan songs, paolina the beloved singing poems and telling playwrights on the shadows of the wall, showing michetta the joys of music and theatrics. one poem by fenton hector, known to paolina as "la caduta del cavaliere verde" (the green knight's fall; a knight's fall) was always sung before bed to influence the young feka about the great knights of the region. as well as a number of other bedtime playwrights, michetta would be overjoyed with the amount of art she was taught, sometimes her mother would even take her to those casting in the amphitheatre in the mountainous regions, or civraxiu would make puppet shows for it as a simplistic hobby. as a young child, michetta was predominantly shy, and at the age of seven was auditioned into the emprizais du lion castle in ivenna, osteiermark to learn the ways of the lion pelt. at first her tuition was a struggle but as the rampant growth of coin and tassel came from the goccicolo “aristocracy” to support the head of the family, she was capable of attending and shadowed underneath mentor eponia sauvelle, where she would clean and cook, at first having to be met by the parents. civraxiu almost lost his temper back at home, with paolina consoling him. the benevolent nefer was too afraid to tell their fortunate daughter the real story behind their tail and declawed, stained hands, out of fear that it would jeopardize their collective decisions and praying for a future change. without much income from the main clan anymore, although still a fair amount as the main patriarch, they now relied on michetta to bring about a brighter future for their namesake. every night civraxiu would pace around the homestead worrying about the atrocities one neflin could commit to his piccolina, always hushed and calmed by his laboring wife when he fell bed-ridden with a fainting illness known as yazzak disease from their intense aviary. alleviated with green tea, civraxiu had the shivers and grew with damaged lungs enough to have to be technologically enhanced with a breathing tube of living metal that he eventually learned to control through his ashan brethren rushing to his aid. some blamed paolina, and even cursed her out of the fray for a while, before the symptoms had subsided and he only required a subtle inhaler that puffed air into his lungs for a brief moment with each intake. this was around michetta’s early ninth birthday, and with her shyness and adapted attitude of benevolence she quickly grew to learn the lion pelt code, participating in a stickler way yet still having a creeping depression wrought in her system, some believing to be a permeating home sickness or the development of a disease. back at home, civraxiu and paolina had gone through a massive argument, yet they made up and resumed to cover such atrocities of a dividing bondship with excessively penning their piccolina, who was going through rigorous “no hand holding” training on behalf of the solvaan altalar noble, only guided once or twice before quote, “feeding oneself to the wolves” on the behalf of non-frequent cultural differences. michetta was a rule-biter, often following them to a point of no return and becoming a dignified, independent child, even going as far as to snakebite another student's wrist to hide a secret and getting a punishment that seemed awkward. she had to carry a book on her head all throughout the rest of the instructing day, but it did leave her with a crooked neck and after, she had to read the book's literature, write a paper upon it, and found that her snakebite trick wasn't worth from a differentiating instructor before her mentor pardoned her with a differentiating scolding. these frequent letters were read by the young feka with passion, and she would often get so unbearably attached to them as if they were her real parents standing there. although not bound to cry as a child, michetta was known to get readily upset at other students who didn't follow the code right and kept to her own whims with a higher chin. some would describe her as a goody-two-shoes with a depression too far for any ten year old to have. when she was eleven she spotted an asha slave in the outer wallings of the courtyards, and he spoke to her in a language of sniffs and ‘r’s that she could not understand. michetta was left puzzled, yet ignored again as asha went on it’s way like a mystical faerie. practicing unionist faith, the young feka consulted to prayer and journaling, as well as lettering as she grew. at the age of thirteen michetta had gotten a distressing letter about her father’s lung issues worsening, yet as the months pursued on into winter and then spring again, she graduated to squire at the age of 14. heavy-set with a stoic attitude, cold front, “don't touch me” personality, and undiagnosed clinical depression, the feka child yearned to return back home yet continued with strife unto her journey. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ ༉‧₊˚. chapter 03: early teen-late teen. most if not all of michetta’s early childhood was far more springing than her later years, and she continued onwards with her lion pelt training. she would continue to guard and defend businesses with her mentor at her side, bartering out to contracts and having to wait behind at the castle when the neflin had to proceed to ithania to learn more about her body esteem and to forward into assisting a man’s journey to solleria. this would continue to be an overseas journey as she continued studying underneath a new temporary mentor, who would treat her if not with more awkward lessons than the last. during this time away from her mentor, the young feka took up instruments to play as a hobby such as the familiar zvorun klakuk from her mother’s side of the family, linked by distant uncle and great great grandfather, which eventually died off/resigned to start his own family. some hostility had been met from her wed and marriage to an asha male, but she was annoyed with the tradition and extended teaching her child the ways of the instrument and beauty of the combined heritage. with this, she would take her skills out to the courtyards and allow herself to train near the banks with proper times. sometimes she would neglect her free time, being unable to do much when dragged out with her temporary mentor to businesses and because of her stronger appearance from working with sauvelle, she had averaged out her body weight and muscular size to a toned body from the consistency of practicing, yet somehow she still held a fast metabolism that made people question why she didn't eat as much. truth be told, michetta did, it was just that she had inherited a high metabolism and had to balance it out through eating larger meals and exercising off the excess energy gained from it, hence why she was always seen at least doing something. at the age of fifteen and a half her mentor returned. all these months of written letters from eponia of societal struggle, body image, about the destructive consequences of culture and being a knight, worrying of her own father’s sickness, being the last labeling rock that her mentor had, the young feka felt the pressures of how much she was needed to be emotionally supportive and again crept that bottling feeling. there were some behavioral changes to sauvelle that worried and concerned michetta, and made her distance some as she couldn't frequently understand as much of the neflin’s emotional distraughts. michetta continued to evolve into being an obedient squire, experiencing again another time that her mentor had to distance from her, but this time for a longer duration which stuck her in a rut of wanting to return to her family more. she had penned to her father and mother her updated lifestyle, and they mailed back with a consistent leniency for how she was trying her best, learning what she could, and encouraged her to continue staying there. to her warped perspective, it felt as if they demanded she did, but she had to take steps back to realize that her parents truly wanted what was just best for her. another instrument she had brought from her homestead was a small wooden percussion frog, where she would rub a rod across it’s spikes and it would syphon chirping noises depending on the variant/size of the frog in itself. the origin of the instrument is truly unknown, but she utilized it in the courtyard aside from her harsh studying lessons that she yet again endured. in combination with her talents she was promoted to a men at arms through rigorous amounts of mental endurance, as well as physical build. what made her graduate was providing unexplainable service to those that bartered her out, as well as the fact that half of the time her mentor had been overseas working together in the wars to come. from a distance the feka watched the letters arrive about them, first the bone horror crisis then the altalar-regalian war. the bone horror crisis was detailed in letter to be out of nowhere, unknown and mystic, seizing the emotional horror in her own heart as it was described to her. approaching the age of sixteen at the time of this, she hastily lettered out instinctually to her parents, proclaiming that she would return home if it meant these abnormalities attacked their way of life. the letters sent back exclaiming the archipelago was safe at the hands of a purple dome moments before the skylight did not reach as the castle was also under threat of the impact: setting up refugee camps, the young feka was tasked with providing homage, food to the locals of oisteremark and solidifying the connections of the borders whether they were empire-standing or not, tending to fleeing ithanians where she would be taught their language and heritage, culture by some, but many seemed distant and treating the feka like novelty which nerved her. the feka still baked and offered bread in this time of need, revamping her dressalo heritage and skills of being a passionate baker, offering herself in any possible way she could. although not treated kindly, having been sometimes pet-named or belittled by other cultures, michetta continued onwards, and out of respect she had endured the ithanian’s rather harsh comments to her with some children even trying to yank or pet her tail, which she couldn't understand until many moonlights she penned her father and he explained to her that their words were not taken lightly, yet never explained what they meant. over the next few months the feka rigorously spent learning the cursive language in hopes to hear their alluring tongue, severely disappointed by understanding now after having written down the phrases, what they truly were speaking and more after getting translation from her assisting temporary mentor. with that, she had stopped pursuing the language as a dream and forcibly tried to unlearn it, knowing only words like 'cat', 'slave', 'catgirl', 'dog', and 'collared'. once the bone horror was subsided in the distant lands, then came the dreadling crisis that sought to bring the feka and many other lion pelt squires into a nightmarish hold. while oisteremark was not sought after by the lo occupation and freya, michetta feared that in the old village she called home with her parents was under siege, frequently communicating three-way between her father, mother, and her mentor with no available time spent to enjoy her activities anymore, hastily preparing her body and mind for the day she had to take on freya and other wars herself. past the aching, fearing months with sleepless nights and chronic back pain, mental fatigue and depression, the feka asha survived and penned again to her father and mother how she was feeling, with responses that they were worried sick in their native language of dressalo. with no promise of ending the wars and a span of a year's break still within the walls of the castle she proceeded to teach herself more writing skills, hammering into everything she could to avoid again the possibility of another war. when the 4th baron of guisand, bonace tylleronde, began to make moves around aloria, hypothesized that due to aloria being weakened after the bone horror crisis, a great political storm would brew, and that regalia should foster alliances in order to keep their long term rivals in check, the lion pelt squire began to advance her militaristic training more, going from a life of freedom and curiosity to now one of constant rigorous “no fun zone”. her temporary mentor gave to her letters from sauvelle of the urgency she had been needed for within the altalar princedoms, daen and her position on the battlefield. it was here that she finally met elre, eponia's twin. the altalar saullevé was someone who had an ego: consistently speaking to michetta about the festivities of a lion pelt, how grandeur he wanted his celebration and what he wanted there. with such confidence in his voice, michetta continued her meekness and worry, but it was nice in her perspective (in some rare circumstances, in others she thought it was brutally rude) that there was at least someone with a happy outlook on the life they were in currently. often, the two would be considered the stereotypical 'book nerd, jock friend', with elre putting more of a focus on his charm and slight weaponry skills, and michetta becoming more booksmart with a militarized balance of sparring. while michetta thinks of elre as a childhood friend, there were times she saw him as a mentor without a mentor titleage due to his distinct relation to eponia. michetta reached seventeen years of age now. the altalar-regalian war had impacted herself and mentor greatly, shattering more of sauvelle’s charisma and courage. the feka squire could only watch, and in turn prepare herself for the upcoming rise of her graduation ceremony, the goal she had been trying to reach for her father for many moons. with a hand at her heart to pray oath and beorl at her side, the lion pelt redeemed herself in many accompaniments of kindness: demonstrating rigorous bravery against the lo occupation’s threats, treating mentor and others with weighted care, being there for their own mental strife and persuading that her own was not her duty as a knight, giving alms and sanctuary to those who needed it even in the times of insult from them, and supporting her true nature and goals of her family. the unionist fanatics attack on the tranquil käell temple shattered her personality, causing her to become daft and quiet in what she practiced. again she would furiously pen and worry, bottling within herself as she prepared an absconding mindset to forward her success and graduation. again would she write to her mentor, with mentions of her ferocity. after the hippodrome executions (the news of the läefel massacre), michetta held her head high with wrought fear of her neflin fate in the expensive future. at the very least her father had not charged into the war, and even now was still a retired poet and musician who performed underneath the dressolini capitol’s stages with his devoted wife dancing to unionist hymns. continuing to practice in written silent areas, the feka squire resumed her duties and learned of emperor cedromar’s sunday mass, those speaking of his divinity with barren recollection and ascension of unionism. without an emperor fully now, michetta turned her devotion more towards the herons in this time of interregnum. the first was amelotte the silent, a hallowed heron that she invested and dedicated her learning to on september 16th, offering books and feathers as well as dedicated psalms, poems. ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ ༉‧₊˚. chapter 04: late teen-graduate. as she continued to study about the herons and dedicate small amounts of time to their dates in the unionist liturgical calendar, michetta continued to compose her own belief, consistently devoting herself to unionist traditions which later grew a name in her heart. more and more playwrights she heard of in the dark times, as well as several figures she believed in, advancing into what would be known as her true faith and way of life. then came the kathar sickness that wrought more stigma into her heart, the squire tending daily to the temporary mentor and fending businesses of the local oisteremark off from their doorsteps. yet, michetta was put at confined rest when she almost contracted such an illness, proving again her faithfulness to the order through risking herself. in the era of war, michetta gocciolo had strived through hardships, balancing out both her own personable safety, her parents welfare, herself, mentor and many other situational responsibilities. in the end she had become a woman of strong noblesse, one without much care for herself, finally an adult at the age of eighteen. when this war subsided, and many others, the lion pelt graduated to men at arms on january 25th, 309 ac at 1200 at twenty-one years of age, living together again with her mentor within the castle and properly having her ularen pelt. this pelt was customized to signify a diligent mindset, weaved with the feverishly sought after golden beads and strands, as well as adorned with flecks of slate grey in the fur pattern. uniquely, this pelt was from a female variant due to the ularen males being bred out or dominantly hunted down for the sole purpose of becoming rugs, and other necessities. it wouldn't take long for michetta to gain gifts from her family, bringing in her father’s heirloom: the beorl axe he (her father) adorned and polished for many moons while unable to do many musical gigs, as well as a finely woven wool coat and many other dresses from the sheep and livestock from her mother with an assortment of perfumes, ladylike wares, accessories and finally another pelt from ithania, the antique and prized snowpaw felicis largely to accompany the ularen one. her mother had also sent to her a cookbook of traditional dressalo bakery goods, written by her in the native language. by now she is hurriedly making her way to regalia after eponia, reading the news of the political danger and preparing with the lion pelts of the crown capitol for the very next attack. furthermore she positions herself in learning about the many noble houses, her hawk-eyed upon royal house howelester and spanning others. she continues to write to her parents, often on saturdays(?) before mass to collectively take the time to write down her worries, blessings, and future preparations & wishes. ༉‧₊˚. schooling history. at the same time as her castle duties, she dual-credited with the knightly course of finances, and the imperial regalian marshal academy, learning on the field. she graduated both with a degree as a minor marshal prestigence at the age of 24, having graduated early on the behalf of dual-credit, and is fully knowledgeable in finances. while she did not become an employed marshal, she was participating in several drills throughout the years. in the past, she was studying archaeological academics part-way from the regalian imperial archaeological academy, and was field studying for a program that introduces world-wide abroad on natural sciences (geography) for the regalian ecological academy in order to become a certified doctor. she can insist on the title as a student, but cannot step over the lines of certified geography majors/those who graduated from natural sciences due to failing to continue the class in sacrifice of her knightly order. her father owned a trading company that was inherited by her when he got too weak to continue, named 'piuma di colomba e penna d'oca', meaning Dove's Feather & Quill (Trading Company) when he felt she could manage with the abroad studying._________________________________________ - fairytears <3
__________________________________________ ༉‧₊˚. chapter 01: birth-toddler. Spoiler: * - born in spring 288 in citta d'ucceli (city of fowl), between ascillia and vultarin with the name "michetta" meaning "little rose" (or the equivalent countries to northern italy, "little crumb"). -wandered into the woods at the age of 3 rumored to be led by trickery of a "falsa", female creatures that had pale skin, walked through trees, had long wiry hair, and stole wandering children. -civraxiu rode into the woods with paolina on horseback and discovers michetta crying due to her irrational fear of equines. -learned + had an interest in herpetology when she was younger, listened to the frogs at the ponds as a hobby and rescued frozen frogs from the snow. -tutored from home: taught to dance, sing, and the standard unionist liturgical calendar, had a passion for mathematics and biology coined "humanus autonomy". -trying to be introduced to the main skills of horseback proved to be a failure as the young feka would cry and scream near any equine beast. instead, she learned how to walk trails and often went through the forest with her father, learning to use compass and digging trenches for caccia par la volontà. -extremely paranoid of magic and whimsical things, the gocciolo cottage was nefarious for barring people who even mentioned the phrase out of contact in a ghosting manner, out of fear that it would influence their daughter to attone to wronged devout ways: their theory was that magic came from the arken's fingers. although they didnt directly tell her this, they stayed hush-hush and like a parrot michetta picked up on their uncomfiness, learning to mirror it as well. -paolina was underneath the roof of vultarin unionism, teaching civraxiu the core ideas. the nefer asha learned quickly, absorbed information well enough, and passed on to michetta his own side of the clergy and devout, influencing her to reach outwards for the herons. -another peculiar hobby besides saving frozen frogs was chasing and beheading the weasels of the rye field, which she had mimicked from her father cutting rye or cutting logs. often she would smuggle the weasel into her room and try with might to skin them, as any young child would do she would cut her finger open. -this habit was quickly snuffed out, and followed again by another of michetta disrupting rabbit dens to find babies during spring seasons, often trying to keep them in her pocket and with a lack of understanding, let them freeze to death. -civraxiu often called her "piccolina" (a very tiny girl) due to how short she was as a child. she learned how to use her claws after civraxiu explained to her the fairytale of a great journey, hiding the facts that he was a slave to keep her benevolent wonders alive. -she didnt learn anything about living metal, and civraxiu kept it a secret because he felt it to be heresy for his faith, or at the least was too afraid to utilize it. -paolina began teaching michetta about the knightly orders, influencing her with fairytales and the famous poem, "la caduta del cavaliere verde" (the green knight's fall; a knight's fall by fenton hector) as well as a number of other bedtime playwrights, sometimes she would even take her to those casting in the amphitheatre in the mountainous regions, or civraxiu would make puppet shows for it as a simplistic hobby. -attended the emprizais du lion castle in praag, oisteremark at the age of seven to become a page for the lion pelt order. the "aristocracy" of her family supported the high payments, and she became eponia eledhwen of house eledhwen's page. -enraged at the racial choice of the lion pelts, civraxiu bottled his feelings up and went into a tantrum back at the homestead, but was too afraid to tell his beloved paolina or michetta of his past, since he feared it would impact their studying or innocence. -paolina had to console the asha's stress levels, and he soon fell ill from yazzak due to their intense aviary that they raised from the grounds up containing diseased doves and hawks. he soon had to use his living metal as an inhaler, and paolina was blamed heavily for his almost-fatal disease by the main household by some of the asha members. -michetta has an undiagnosed mental strain equivalent to genetic depression, and began showing adolescent signs around her ninth birthday, yet she continued to be a stickler for the lion pelt code even when young. -a massive argument back at the home between paolina, civraxiu and the asha members of the greater household erupted and almost shattered the family, and covered it up through penning michetta loving letters and making up for it secretively by writing apologies to each other (paolina & civraxiu). -michetta continued to strive for being a greater squire, rule-biting and un-budging on trying new things for the sake of her dignity, code and honor. she once covered someone's silly fallacy with a snakebite to get a punishment from a different mentor, striving to earn the code of 'make other pelters for happy, for they will do the same for you'. -when she turned eleven she seen an asha slave on the outskirts of the fence-line that spoke to her in enhanced r's and foreign-speech. she to this day thinks of it as a 'memory out of a storybook'. -at the age of thirteen she heard of her father's depressing illness worsening his core, and worried to the point of almost returning to her home in fear that her father would become severely bedridden. the only thing that was stopping her was the distant letterings telling her to keep striving for her goals, winter, and the upcoming news that her mentor would have to go and embark on a contractor's journey. -graduated to squire at the age of fourteen. ༉‧₊˚. chapter 03: early teen-late teen. Spoiler: * -eponia eledhwen, michetta's mentor, had taken up several contracts and eventually assisted a man with his travels to solleria, working on her bodily self-esteem in ithania. it was like leaving a beloved for several years, with michetta feeling abandoned and heartbroken. she was placed with a temporary mentor who had an awkward teaching skill. -picking up her mother's khlakuk, she tried to use music and unionist hymns to keep herself passionate and mentally stable. paolina's family wasnt too thrilled on the fact she had married an asha, and distanced from her, therefore michetta couldnt learn too much about her ailor heritage except from her mother. -in these times michetta would neglect her free hours, spending time preparing with the blade and doing what was best for businesses with her temporary mentor. she often had to eat a lot for her weight as she had a rather fast metabolism, and even then she remained with little to no body fat, which some were alarmed at because she was always on her feet. -at fifteen and a half eponia had returned briefly to the castle, with michetta listening to her letters and discussing with her some personal things before she had to leave again for the bone horror crisis. -again the squire waited, continuing to experience the fear of this crisis on the crown capital and furthermore worry for her parents back at home, writing to them hastily and trying to count the days it took a horseman or crier to reach their mountaintop nest at the age of sixteen. -she and other squires with the temporary mentor and theirs were tasked to help create a refuge camp for those fleeing from the bone horror crisis. tending to ithanians, she was insulted in their natural tongue and dotted upon by others, making herself more uncomfortable about being touched on the tail or head. after penning her father, she felt remorse and complete disgust about what those settlers truly had said to her. -in these times she offered to continue bottling up and baking bread for the refugees, as well as confectionaries from her homeland. -after the bone horror crisis came the dreadling crisis and the lo occupation, causing her and many of the castle occupants to undergo a lockdown that she rigorously trained throughout, strengthening her grip on her practice axe and continuing to vigorously write letters to both eledhwen and her parents. -it saddened her further to learn about the altalar-regalian war that was to happen, having been told through letter that was gifted to her by eledhwen. she was seventeen years of age now, and was striving more with a militaristic pattern to reach her graduation ceremony with honor. -the unionist fanatics attack on the tranquil käell temple shattered her personality, causing her to become daft and quiet in what she practiced. again she would furiously pen and worry, bottling within herself as she prepared an absconding mindset to forward her success and graduation. -after the hippodrome executions (the news of the läefel massacre), michetta held her head high with wrought fear of her (eponia's) neflin fate in the expensive future. -at the very least her father had not charged into the war, and even now was still a retired poet and musician who performed underneath the dressolini capitol’s stages with his devoted wife dancing to unionist hymns. ༉‧₊˚. chapter 04: late teen-graduate. Spoiler: * -then came the kathar sickness that wrought more stigma into her heart, the squire tending daily to the temporary mentor and fending businesses of the local oisteremark off from their doorsteps. yet, michetta was put at confined rest when she almost contracted such an illness, proving again her faithfulness to the order through risking herself. she became eighteen then, a respected adult with enough emotional scars to prove her unwavering alliegance to the emperor, herons, and her nation. -she in this time continued to dedicate herself to the lithurgical calendar in privacy, now amending to the minoth sect's way of life with their philosophies instead of direct worship (although she does heavily still go to church and worships). -when this war subsided, and many others, the lion pelt graduated to men at arms on january 25th, 309 ac at 1200 at twenty-one years of age, living together again with her mentor within the castle and properly having her ularen pelt. this pelt was customized to signify a diligent mindset, weaved with the feverishly sought after golden beads and strands, as well as adorned with flecks of slate grey in the fur pattern. uniquely, this pelt was from a female variant due to the ularen males being bred out or dominantly hunted down for the sole purpose of becoming rugs, and other necessities. -other gifts included homestead, warming gifts from her parents such as afforded perfumes, expensive material, flour and floral goods, and her fathers now-polished, adorned family heirloom of a beorl axe. as well as those, she had finally received another pelt from ithania, the antique and prized snowpaw felicis largely to accompany the ularen one. her mother had also sent to her a cookbook of traditional dressalo bakery goods, written by her in the native language. __________________________________________ ༉‧₊˚. trivia. Spoiler: * civraxiu was an avid hunter before he became bedridden, his favorite game was wild turkey and truffles. his favorite dish to try and prepare for the family was done by his paolina, the valezzo sausage with imported goods and natural bread. rye was a common thing to farm around their village, therefore they made breads relevant to the italian white bread, rosetta. frankly, this was also where michetta’s name came from, meaning little crumb or little rose. a lot of the time, michetta was lonely in her homestead, accompanied only by bizarre looks from the townsfolk and even civraxiu’s family name, many of the asha expressing their concerns for him to have wed with an ailor woman and how it was possible for his soulmate to have even been one. although the family wasn’t openly dismissive, there had been a couple of private conversations that led civraxiu to become temperamental and bitter, with his war-veteran esque nature he had directly insulted a number of them behind closed doors even if he felt weirdly uncomfortable. this is one of the many reasons michetta doesn't know her asha family, or by chance and extension anything they were known for. in the house, michetta was entertained by her mother through music, especially the zvorun klakuk she was gifted and even more through civraxiu speaking of tales he had learned, puppeteering and juggling the artisan skill of woodcutting and metal cutting. this would later be how he carved intricate designs into his war-trodden beorl and gifted it to michetta when she graduated to men-at-arms. michetta practiced vultarian unionism within the home, but was always loosely free with her father and mother bickering on how they should leanway to let her pick her own religious rites. it was at this time she saw many playwrights and was influenced to study zvorun passions, azzizzari clothing etiquette, dressolini dance, mathematics and buffing her skill as a musician at the age of six, supported by paolina taking her to said plays and reading to her stories. michetta’s favorite dessert is the azzizzarian filagia, while her favorite meal is a simple glass of kaffee or dolce nettare with dressalo gulaš. valezzo sausage, zürcher geschnetzeltes, veniard d’estaing, and many other leutz-vixe, dressalo, and zvorun dishes collided within her diet, making her have a strong palette for pork and beef. during her training and studying at the castle, she consumed handfuls of berries and quick tempered spirits to boost her energy. kaffee was a necessary supplement, and with her fast metabolism when dinner came she had to consume three meals per day, sometimes four. some of the days spent worrying were used to journal and fortify her belief, praying in secrecy and guided by the vultarin ways of unionism. this here is when she developed her theories. in the times that she wrote back to her family in dressalo, she communicated in great details about how her mentor was, then the wealth behind it, nobility and their grandeur events, before the bone horror crisis and her fears with the lo occupation. sometimes she can recall how she wrote, but since sending then hasn't thought too much of it. common hobbies while michetta arrives in regalia are shopping, addressing nobility, and attending to newly opening businesses to bring alms and goods. she can often be seen wearing her garb and standard armor or in casual wear when going to restaurants, offering a share of bread or trinket to whomever is being in service for the first time she goes there. when she worked and tailored as a squire or shined armor, she would frequently sing the viridian tale of a knight’s fall to remind herself of her goal and what not to stray to, for her fate would be the same if she ever went that path. sometimes, she still sings it in the natural leutz-vixe language, yet it has poor tone and is more of a hum/mumble. she cannot canonically sing, and is off-key when trying. as well as learning her instruments, she had kept her tailoring skills as a squire and put it to good use creating fabric and felt pins, basket weaving and small trinkets that deemed to keep her sanity and serotonin levels large as she dealt with the bone horror crisis. some of these felt pins included butterflies, frogs and herons, as well as ladybugs and bamboo. it is rumored by the azzizzari dwellers that michetta (and many other children) had been led to the deep parts of the woods by a silver skinwalker seeking to feed on her with the greater desire of whatever one toddler would seek (blackwald summoning), whether it had been civraxiu himself or her mother. civraxiu to this day speaks of how lucky he was to have found her, as her clothing would not have made her last in that outdoor mountainous cold. the main sonnets at the beginning of the application both represent their respective images: civraxiu has guerriero, meaning "warrior" in italian, while donna potente means "powerful woman" for her mother, paolina. michetta picked up a small hobby of woodcarving over time, essentially making her crude wooden frog at the age of fifteen while bored in the castle. in some time, it had broken and as a gift-replacement, refined and better suited for playing. ༉‧₊˚. civraxiu. Spoiler: * was lew clade asha (nefert). he stood at a height of 5’4” with a benevolent temperament, snow white fur that came in beachy waves and downward facing ears with pink drooling eyes of exhaustion: he was born a paleblood, his family continuing the photosensitive gene, as well as the auditory disability gene. his tail was slender with ribboning strands of melanin-lacking, eggshell white fur, whilst his back was a different shade of white with a brindle of lower brown and black fur that couldn't be seen unless impacted by direct sunlight. references: (silken windhound, white undercoat, faded brindle grey). his name became ‘civraxiu’ after the italian bread refined in cellars, usually wrapped in cloth, a playwright on his time underneath teledden slavery where he wore adorned white garbs. the journeying lew clade found themselves free from the chains of slavery, conjoining with daedroque ailor across the archipelago. they went from the allorn empire’s outskirts to ithania, where again they would serve in another enslaving protocol with high destitute of freedom in the capitol. in these years, the ashan learned from his collective mistakes d’ithi, departing from slavery after the second wave of explositivity from the daedroque revolutions, angered plantation and lower nobility daedroque attacking the ithanian state out of malice for the freedom of the elven slaves. taking up arms cretin deployed himself as a slave-soldier underneath olividae marsalle-regalois (shortened), armed with beorl axe specialty from rigorous fights in his attempt to flee the state. olividae was serviced below an important structure as both hotier/hero unit and informant before passing away in battle to an untreated infection. failure to supply eternal happiness until death do parting the ashan lew clade’s timid benevolence malformed into a riddling dissonance, and they departed from the army on behalf of planned escapism yet again. an url from a foreign mercenary group had saved him, creating a well-bonding pact in both fury and might, teaching him further how to properly wield the “noble bardiche”. cretin was informed of many stories, including the story of jarl beorl of ellador. the velheim url continued to create this dynamic mentor relationship, teaching him both strength and wisdom, including of the oorl worm in itself. a denier of symbiosis, cretin went on his way to join the absconding daedroques, and continued to write letters back to the url to keep a friend, yet it was not received in return. becoming treasonous/a war abandoner, the ashan fled on behalf of fearing daedroque settlers to the highlands of the dressolini culture with even some mixed jendaskea and avanthar slaves, guided by carriage with many others and becoming a free slave underneath the new name ‘civraxiu goccicolo.’ this name would eventually wravel out of proportions, gathered together into a singular family name, and invited asha from the slaven events to bond together in a hierarchical system. with civraxiu being the founder, leading together with daedroque elder missy baunrach (she had kept her name to separate from the ashan family) combining their wealth and being influenced to convert to azzizzari by instinctual notice. with the surplus of fundings the goccicolo became an extravagant rich-house that served to better the lives of dressolini and daedroque cultures alike, often those of the brutally stronger lines becoming knights of passion, guided by the unionist heritage with traditional twists. (villers e’claire, lion pelts) hedonism became a fluent thing, hypocritically like the elven masters before them, and they melted into having a cherished livelihood of servants, beginning charity and promoting wealth in the common area, as well as creating a trading company. civraxiu did not pursue a lineage of knighthood, instead a life of romance and dancer, embracing the classical musical arts within the cities ranges of città d’uccelli (city of fowl). albeit, not a city with a small population, the name dates back to the colonial times of the dressolini culture that later decreased with sufficient lack of nobility and dutiful participation, and warped into a culture with daedroque influence.
__________________________________________ 309 A.C. - arrives in the crown capital urgently from the news of a rising talea trying to conjoin the altalars once more, worries for the safety of eponia eledhwen and almost rejects the after-party of her graduation due to it, yet is insisted to host it nevertheless for the lion pelts of regalia to assure one last party before a large-scale (assumed) fight. 309 A.C. - fights for tirgunn and holds up her portion of the line, defending fallen darkwald and fiona in tow. she joins the piergarten retinue and becomes the palest of amelina piergarten. the lion pelt order was pleased with the curing of the baron and assisting their oisteremark order brethren, the darkwald order. 309 A.C. - in the peirgarten retinue, serviced as a general for the trench orders, assisted in the land operations of the concluding sendrassian war circa spring season (march 24th). previously, extended her financial offer and almost ran dry through the funding of the tenpenny academies march 2nd. promoted to third maiden on the 6th of april. __________________________________________ The honor of a Lion Pelt Knight is to refuse unfairness, meanness, and deceit. Refrain from speaking ill of anyone and return slander with words of kindness. The unity of the Lion Pelt Order is paramount. Seek always to strengthen your fellow members, and go to any lengths to ensure their happiness and wellbeing, for they will do the same for you. Knights must be bound to service, and remain faithful to those they serve until released from duty or dissolved by the Primae. A Knight without someone to serve is like a Feathered Meadowfly drawn to a flame of contempt. Remember that the wealth of Aloria is temporary, and give alms to the destitute who need it most. For the duty of those with the means to live in excess, is to see that those below them are cared for with their surplus. -------------- Through faith there is self-betterment: Never doubt the path one takes lest it be harmful, corrupt, and intangible with the commandments. Understand that even through rejection of help, gift others kind words and offerings of semblance not from pity, but from the heart. Support others through problems: Physically, mentally, physiologically, and emotionally. Question thynself, yet schism not and assure that your heart knows you have done what is right without arrogance. Do not preach said faith, but keep to you your pelt and your title. Assistance is charity: Provide protection, even if one does not get a dime back it is better deserved that you use your money towards others to give alms; give up your body, soul, personality and more to others in light of good hope. You must always serve your Patron: They are your bread of life, your wine, your everything. Til death do part. Do not ever leave their side amidst battle. Words must never be used unfaithfully: Do not maim another's title, do not attack another Pelter. Endeavour to appear beautiful: You do not need wealth to be pretty, show to the good people that your kindness has lent you a kind face and clean body. You may not become apart of the City Guard, but you may become a Lord Commander. You are loyal to your Patron only, matter not if it is a Palest-title or Houseguard. Resist the temptation to use your power wrongly: You are a bodyguard and else, but you must not befall to the might of your hidden capacity for violence, you must never become a Mercenary.
* information: 65, Kleymissky_0283, 20411F __________________________________________ - 2/4/2021 + 2/5/2021: added extra(s) * backstory run-down in summaries * trivia added * expansions added *app submitted/changed to character application main thread, finished for now -2/5/2021: added knightly code, discussion board divider, changes will be made in green for review. updated praag --> ivenna for the new leutz-vixe content, and changed proficiencies to put her back to 20. -4/22/2021: proficiency overhaul, backstory additions, trading company additions, schooling additions, palebloodism/genetics addition for that good isldar-esque rp, knight code updated. __________________________________________
@Antimreoir :: one change ! updated general command talent to 5 to match her pathfinding skill and be able to at least be efficient in command. bodycare was borrowed from to make it more realistic on why she wears light makeup tones only. second edit :: added wooden frog to inventory, its hooked to her hip by a metallic loop.
Here's my review! @fairytears Basic Information Everything looks good here!Skill Information Everything looks good here!Special Traits N/AVisual Information Michietta's Physical Stat should be 19.Personality Please add Michietta's morality to your Core List. Other than that everything looks good here.Life Story Good lord this is long, the summary is much appreciated here. Everything looks good though. Overall, one hell of an application. Apologies it took so long to get this review out, a lot of content to go through here. Just a few tiny edits to be made and we'll be good to go.
Changes have been made: - 20.5 (20) phy stat --> 19 phy stat (did not change coloration, but I made this change in the same section) - added alignment marked in green! no need to apologize! im glad that you took the time to read it and all, get some rest <3
2/5/2021 changes have been made! - gave her two hobby points in wooden art: reason: i never mentioned if the wooden frog was just a gift or if she had made it aka i wanted to give it more meaning, so i included it in the trivia as a little tidbit read. - changed phy stat to 20 because of wooden art + carving. - changed praag to ivenna for oisteremark, not colored as it wasnt as big of a detail. changes are marked in green ! @Antimreoir
@fairytears All good, reapproved! There's no need to tag me for a re-review if less than 10 Points are being shuffled around, just to save time for you if you're making small edits in the future. Please still notify me of these, however.
@Antimreoir | 4/21/2021 update! Added new things: Proficiency update - More baking!! - Singing to frogs - Instrumental playing (Zvorun) - etc. - Phy stat was already at cap. Quality of Life update - Born with Palebloodism - Schooling backstory added - Timeline updated slightly to match story Abilities list update (Proficiency, Racial) - Added to make a summary/etc. Knightly Code - Added! In the near future, I might begin to fade out Civraxiu's slave-tie past. While it's a great character arc and teaches the moral that 'things get better', I don't know if im confident having Asha slavery mentioned, even though it portrays the brutality of it perfectly through quite literally speaking about her father being tail-docked, declawed, and a veteran of the aftermath, building up his life as a humble metallurgist and trying to make his living through the trading company, relying on his daughter as inheritance/being proud of her.
@fairytears You cannot get a racial bonus if you have only spent 5 points in a proficiency (barring Talent Proficiencies), you must invest a minimum of 10 in Baking Arts in order to receive that bonus. Also, you've only spent 48 points total. If you feel removing Civraxiu's slave-ties then feel free, though I do agree that it is a nice moral arc for your character to have gone through.
@Antimreoir | Did the changes: - Removed Fist proficiency > Moved 1 core point to Baking - Stole 1 point from Vocal + Instrument > Moved to Baking - Added 2 points from leftover bank (48) to Baking - Added Racial boost of 5 to Baking once invested 10 points - Fixed physical stat accordingly! Thank you for the quick remind, i'm going to do some changes to Civraxiu's section that implies he had the Palebloodism trait (it was already mostly implied, a few changes to that and it'll be square). Edit: Finished the updates, in the future I might make a family tree but currently this is what she's been needing for awhile. Thanks for the quick replies! Edit #2: Added Sauvelle relationship (Elre) @joglak and fixed Eledhwen to Sauvelle "it was here that she finally met elre, eponia's twin. the altalar saullevé was someone who had an ego: consistently speaking to michetta about the festivities of a lion pelt, how grandeur he wanted his celebration and what he wanted there. with such confidence in his voice, michetta continued her meekness and worry, but it was nice in her perspective (in some rare circumstances, in others she thought it was brutally rude) that there was at least someone with a happy outlook on the life they were in currently. often, the two would be considered the stereotypical 'book nerd, jock friend', with elre putting more of a focus on his charm and slight weaponry skills, and michetta becoming more booksmart with a militarized balance of sparring. while michetta thinks of elre as a childhood friend, there were times she saw him as a mentor without a mentor titleage due to his distinct relation to eponia."
redoing this character in an entirely different light/discontinuing her as a knight, the name michetta gocciolo will still be referenced as per progressions, but the new version of her will follow a different name & entirely different style than the original character had. ---------------------------- will edit when construction is done with a tag/request for a new revisor!
